Strength of mothers, not their weakness, which thinkers fear

I COULDN’T wait to get my hands on it.

The Conflict, by one of France’s leading intellectuals, Elisabeth Badinter, topped the European book charts and has unleashed bales of newsprint in the US where it’s just come out.

It has different subtitles in different translations, but the clearest is: “How modern motherhood undermines the status of women.”